Compiling these extensive datasets was a major undertaking, and we are very thankful to the many domain experts who helped to collect and manually annotate the data for this competition. Specifically, we would like to thank (institutions and individual contributors in alphabetic order):

###[Chemnitz University of Technology](https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/index.html.en)
**Maximilian Eibl and Stefan Kahl**

###[Columbia University](https://e3b.columbia.edu/)
**Vijay Ramesh**

###[Google Research](https://research.google/)
**Tom Denton**

###[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati](https://www.iisertirupati.ac.in/)
**Chiti Arvind, Harikrishnan C.P., Viral Joshi, V.V. Robin, and Suyash Sawant**

###[K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics](https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu/)
**Stefan Kahl, Holger Klinck, and Vijay Ramesh**

###[LifeCLEF](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2024)
**Alexis Joly and Henning Müller**

###[Nature Conservation Foundation](https://www.ncf-india.org/)
**Divya Mudappa and T.R. Shankar Raman**

###[Parry Agro Industries Ltd.](https://parryagro.com/)

###[Project Dhvani](http://projectdhvani.weebly.com/)
**Meghana Srivathsa**

###[Tamil Nadu Forest Department](https://www.forests.tn.gov.in/)

###[Tata Coffee Ltd.](https://www.tatacoffee.com/)

###[Tea Estates India Ltd.](http://woodbriargroup.com/)

###[The Rufford Foundation](https://www.rufford.org/)

###[The University of Florida](https://snre.ifas.ufl.edu/)
**Akshay V. Anand**

###[Xeno-canto](https://xeno-canto.org/)
**Willem-Pier Vellinga**


###Photo Credits
- Banner picture of a Malabar Trogon by Saswat Mishra
- Inset picture of a Sholicola by Ian Lockwood